Why did the monarchy get overthrown in 1792?
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- Why was the monarchy overthrown in 1792?
- The flight to Verennes
- 20th June 1791, reached verennes on the night of the 21-22
- discovered by postmaster - Drouet
- because he deeply regretted his acceptance of the Civil Constitution of the Clergy
- Fear of Counter Revolution
- War with Austria
- Outbreak in April 1792
- destroyed the consensus of 1789
- led to fall of monarchy civil war & the terror
- The increasing support for the republicans
- the political clubs, the sans-coulottes, the fédérés
- The Brunswick Manafesto
- published 1st August 1792
- intended to help the king but had the opposite effect.
- 47/48 sections decided that it was time for the abolition of the monarchy
- The Austrian Committee
- A group of influencial politicians & close confidants who gathered around Marie Antionette.
- Louis refusal to cooperate
- left doubts iin many minds
- hard for const-monarchists to fight for their solution
- The Political Clubs
- The Cordelliers
- founded in April 1790
- more radical than jobins
- leaders - bougeois && Supporters - working class
- Morat was a famous member
- The Jacobin
- enterance fee
- 1200 members in 1790
- support from sans-coulottes
- maxamillion robespierre - key member
- 1793 over 2000 members
- 2% France were followers during 1790-1799
- The Cordelliers
- The flight to Verennes
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